Walter Hirsch was born in 1935 in St Petersburg, Russia, but came to Sweden as a child. He began his career in film but went on in 1965 to work as a freelance photographer in Stockholm. In 1967, his acclaimed series Midsummer was published, and in 1968, Moderna Museet showed his series London 13 April, 9 am - 11 pm, which includes nearly 700 photographs, all taken in one and the same day in the city
Curator: Anna Tellgren
The exhibition Reality Revisited includes more than 300 photographs from the 1970s, all in the Moderna Museet Collection of photography. It gives us a look into several realities, the lives of famous photographers and their views on life and art. The featured photographers represent classic black-and-white photography. They have used the medium in various ways to develop their own expressive style through the photographic image. Postwar street photography and subjective photography were seminal to the photographers whose careers began in the 1960s and peaked in the 1970s before the breakthrough of postmodern photo-based art in the early 1980s. The title, Reality Revisited, refers to the way these photographers frequently used, or returned to, their own reality as a starting point. Many of them s...